02-15-2012, 05:23 PM
This wouldn't be the first time since I started monitoring our earth's magnetic field about 6 months ago that ive seen our magnetic field getting hammered by phantom energies. The explanation in the past has been we simply moved through the natural solar wind streams when it was especially powerful. I noticed yesterday's random activity and hopped on spaceweather.com and the explanation was a "slight disturbance in the solar winds". Whatever the cause, it started a low-severity geomagnetic storm. It couldn't be a CME since there were no earth-directed ones. I guess a CME on the other side could have caused the ripple in the solar wind.
Theories on why the solar wind has been seemingly more powerful than in times past are welcome. I know I read an article about how earth is situated at the perfect orbital radius that when the sun takes incoming proton clouds which the sun focuses like a nozzle onto earth when it passes through this stream. It also said that because of this that it would take about 1000/persomeunitofmeasurement to... Let's just say it would be off the scale.
Watching the effects of various CME's on our magnetic field over the months, I can say that I've seen them be comparably powerful as moving through the main solar stream. CME's are usually only potentially harmful to us only if we get a "double-whammy" type hit where we get hit by a less powerful, slower moving CME, then a more powerful, faster moving CME so they arrive at earth at the same time. This happened in the last truely powerful solar storm in the 1850's or 60's, where they saw auroras all over the world in locations never recorded before. If I remember correctly, it would place it 144 years from the year 2012. That's 12 years average times 12 solar cycles since that one. There were other reports older than that one but of course it was only with the observation of the naked eye.
It also took out telegraph lines and messed with what little electronics they had then. An event like that today would certainly be much more devastating because of our reliance on communications and electricity.
I am going on memory on all this, will provide links later / correct any errors with a new post.
Theories on why the solar wind has been seemingly more powerful than in times past are welcome. I know I read an article about how earth is situated at the perfect orbital radius that when the sun takes incoming proton clouds which the sun focuses like a nozzle onto earth when it passes through this stream. It also said that because of this that it would take about 1000/persomeunitofmeasurement to... Let's just say it would be off the scale.
Watching the effects of various CME's on our magnetic field over the months, I can say that I've seen them be comparably powerful as moving through the main solar stream. CME's are usually only potentially harmful to us only if we get a "double-whammy" type hit where we get hit by a less powerful, slower moving CME, then a more powerful, faster moving CME so they arrive at earth at the same time. This happened in the last truely powerful solar storm in the 1850's or 60's, where they saw auroras all over the world in locations never recorded before. If I remember correctly, it would place it 144 years from the year 2012. That's 12 years average times 12 solar cycles since that one. There were other reports older than that one but of course it was only with the observation of the naked eye.
It also took out telegraph lines and messed with what little electronics they had then. An event like that today would certainly be much more devastating because of our reliance on communications and electricity.
I am going on memory on all this, will provide links later / correct any errors with a new post.
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